. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. centuries, the beautifulGlymene still receives tlie homageof all the strangers who go to admirethis superb vase. What modernbeauty can flatter herself with equalcelebrity from the most passionatebillet doua-, even though Avritten onrose-coloured paper, ornamentedwith the most ingenious vignettes,and impregnated with the most ex-quisite perfumes ? Modern gallantry furnishes uswith only one specimen, that canbe put in competition with these re-mains of ancient Greece. For thiswe arc indebted to a painter of thes
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. centuries, the beautifulGlymene still receives tlie homageof all the strangers who go to admirethis superb vase. What modernbeauty can flatter herself with equalcelebrity from the most passionatebillet doua-, even though Avritten onrose-coloured paper, ornamentedwith the most ingenious vignettes,and impregnated with the most ex-quisite perfumes ? Modern gallantry furnishes uswith only one specimen, that canbe put in competition with these re-mains of ancient Greece. For thiswe arc indebted to a painter of theschool of Raphael, who, being inlove with a potters daughterj gain-. THIRTEENTH LETTER FR03I ITALr. 211 €tl her heart by iJelineatino^ ber por-trait on a delft vessel of her fathersmanufacturiu£r. Tbi<; is still ad-raired ia the fine collection of themuseum at Brunswick. Our potteries, however, rais^hteasily rival those of the ancients inthis respect. Various designs andcyphers, decorated with flowers, ap- : pear in our porcelain, ornamentingj vessels of ele:rant shape. In Ger- mai;y, portraits in profile have been1 introduced. But it is not likely,:| that this symbolical language shouldI Iiave much success in the present\ day, as our lovers find no difficultyin expressing their wishes, without; having recourse to allegory. LETTERS FROM ITALY. LETTER XIII.^WITH A MAP OF THE ISLAND OF CAPRI, IX THE GULF OF NAPLES). Naples, , 1803. || miles (which our deluded optics rc- J/y dear T. duce to seven or eight), its roman- Next to Rome, and perhaps, 1 tic views, sublime prospects, itswitliout this exception, no spot on i! comparatively liigh state of cul
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